2000 Buick Regal LS

All right – back to the W-Body cars. This Regal was awesome – powerful enough, quiet, smooth but not floaty, good looking (relative, mind you), and better interior materials and design than any other car I owned. This car was polar opposite of the Grand Am – this car just WORKED, and made me fall in love with it. So, a great car – what made me want another? Shaking – I tried to have it diagnosed multiple times. Spent over $2000, and I still couldn’t get it figured out. Most garages stopped even looking at it – they would lift it up on their machines, and it would almost shake off when they put it in gear. I felt unsafe driving it, so I traded it in…I felt that maybe it was best to get away from my W-Body cars, and go with a different platform – hence my LeSabre.

1995 Chevrolet Lumina LS

So, everything I had had an issue with in my Regal – windows, A/C, radio – was no longer a problem when I got my Lumina. Not just any Lumina – oh yes, it was an LS, which means it had upgraded cloth seats (leather wasn’t an option yet), better wheels and rims (my first and only car that had 16" tires) an upgraded stereo (no CD player), and standard power seat, power windows, power locks, keyless entry, etc. I was uptown! It also had a 3.1 liter engine (the 3.8 became optional in 1998, and the other engine available in the Monte Carlo in 1995 was a 3.4 liter engine). Well, 160 hp the 3.1L had was better than the 125 hp my Regal had, but the car weighed more, so any gains I had really weren’t that great.

My first car – 1988 Buick Regal Custom

I thought I would start off by telling what cars I have owned…since this is going to be a blog partly about cars. Like I said in my About page, I like quiet, elegant cars. Of course, those cars cost money, so you will see in my list where I had to cut corners (cough, Grand Am, cough) to just have transportation.

First car – 1988 Buick Regal Custom